Lagos to Host Yobo Testimonial

Lagos to Host Yobo Testimonial

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The Lagos State Government is set to host a befitting testimonial for former Nigeria captain Joseph Yobo where it expects players like Samuel Eto’o, Didier Drogba, and a host of other global names to participate.

Yobo had a distinguished career which took him to several countries and clubs. He played in Belgium, France, England and Turkey with varying degrees of success.

Yobo led the Super Eagles to victory at the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations before calling time on his international career after Nigeria’s second round elimination by France at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.

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The Lagos State Government is set to host a befitting testimonial for former Nigeria captain Joseph Yobo where it expects players like Samuel Eto’o, Didier Drogba, and a host of other global names to participate.
Yobo had a distinguished career which took him to several countries and clubs. He played in Belgium, France, England and Turkey with varying degrees of success.
Yobo led the Super Eagles to victory at the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations before calling time on his international career after Nigeria’s second round elimination by France at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.
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Jonathan’s ex-ADC Arrested by EFCC

Jonathan’s ex-ADC Arrested by EFCC 

Col. Ojogbane Adegbe,the Aide-de-Camp to former President Goodluck Jonathan Nigerian has been arrested by the operatives of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission in connection with the ongoing probe of the $2.1 Billion arms deal.

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The soldier was summoned from United Kingdom where he was attending a course and was arrested in Lagos on Thursday.

Investigation revealed that another seven top military officers were arrested and currently being qized by senior military officers at Mogadishu Cantonment, popularly known as Abacaha Barracks in Abuja.

 After a brief interrogation by the army officers, they were handed over to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission at noon on Thursday.

Investigations revealed that the former ADC was undergoing a National Defence College course in one of the military institutions in the United Kingdom.

However, Adegbe had since written a statement at the EFCC, a source said, adding that the former ADC showed up with some lawyers to perfect the statement.

 

Tompolo Declared Wanted by EFCC

Tompolo Declared Wanted by EFCC

  

 Following his refusal to appear before a Federal High Court, Lagos over fraud allegation, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has declared a former Niger Delta militant leader, Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo, wanted.

In an advertorial placed in some national newspapers and signed by the Head of Media and Publicity, EFCC, Wilson Uwujaren, the anti-graft agency said it became necessary to declare Tompolo wanted because two bench warrants had been issued against him by a Federal High Court in Lagos.

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Before the court, Tompolo was charged with a N45.9bn fraud by EFCC but he had refused to show up.

Conspicuously, the advertorial showed Tompolo’s photograph and described him as a 47-year-old, dark-complexioned man from Okerenkoko, Gbaramotu Kingdom in the Warri South-West Local Government Area of Delta State.

The advert also gave the address of the wanted man as No. 1, Chief Agbanu Street, DDPA Extension, Warri, Delta State and added that he speaks both Izon and English languages.

The public announcement issued by Uwujaren read in part, “The general public is hereby notified that Government Ekpemupolo (a.k.a. Tompolo), whose photograph appears above, is wanted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission in relation to the offence of conspiracy and illegal diversion of the sum of N34,000,000,000.00 and N11,900,000,000.00 belonging to the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency.”

Justice Ibrahim Buba of a Federal High Court in Lagos had issued a bench warrant against Tompolo on January 14 after he shunned a summons dated January 12, 2016 issued by the judge to appear in connection with the fraud charges filed against him and nine others by EFCC.

Justice Buba had ordered the law enforcement agencies to produce Tompolo before him on February 8 for him to answer the charges, but rather than appear in court on January 8, Tompolo brought an application seeking to quash the bench warrant and arrest order.